It was as if the mere thought of his millions made them reach out their hands towards his pockets.
He found that whether he was in the St. James’s Street Clubs to which he had been introduced by some of the most influential people in the land or in the ballrooms of the great hostesses, there was always at his elbow a seller of some commodity.
Because he was extremely intelligent and very shrewd, he disliked being thought of as a ‘sucker’! He therefore had no intention of being one and took great care to prevent such an unlikely occurrence.
But he had seen the glint in the Duke’s eye when he had talked about his horses and he was quite certain that, after the port had passed round the table a considerable number of times after dinner, the subject would come up.
‘I will have a quick look
